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[wadoichimonji]

Posted: May 12, 2016
From: Zoro

Hhow do i het the thing that fixes my trxts to work again? It stopped working and now incant type ajythig.

[Zoro's autocorrect stopped working.]

Comments

[wadoichimonji]

the thignthat lets mewrit e in oroepr languahe. the soell fixrr

Still text, my bad for not formatting

[volksdaemon]

[Okay okay one more.]

The spell fixer? Hmm... I wonder if we have the same kind of phone...

That's ok!

[wadoichimonji]

yeah the thinh that makes your messages look oretty without modtakes.

theres more than ome kinf?

[volksdaemon]

Of course there is, especially for the different languages.

[Now he's just bullshitting.]

It's called Spellchecker by the way. We should get you the ToolTips with that little paperclip to help you use your phone.

[wadoichimonji]

Really?

what ate you taljing aboit?

[volksdaemon]

90s reference. I do that sometimes. Never mind.

Maybe if you know where the Search function is?

[wadoichimonji]

What is these 90s? Are yoi that old?

Nope, the screwn doesnt have searcj anywhere.

[volksdaemon]

No it's not my age -- the year! 1990-1999 AD, if you want to be specific.

Guess some other techie will have to help you with that part then.

[wadoichimonji]

Oh, so lije its 2016 now?

Why? Is ir that diffuclt?

[volksdaemon]

Yes, 2016 now.

Yes it's difficult for a phone I don't spend too much time on myself either.

[wadoichimonji]

So.. you are old if you werr around in the 90d.

Me neiter, probably why Im having trouble.

[volksdaemon]

Bzzzt, try again. There was some time skipping around business in there. I'm not old at all.

Heh. Maybe don't worry about it then. At least then you'll just be annoying some folks.

[wadoichimonji]

That sounds like an interesting story.

And not anymore! My... fellow shinki? Eno came to fix it!

[volksdaemon]

Ah the power of friendship. One has to wonder if you ever knew that much about phones in the first place if you're a shinki. It doesn't sound like it.

[wadoichimonji]

Probably not, I don't feel like I ever used one of these things.

[volksdaemon]

They're pretty advanced from what I remember too. This was only just getting off the ground and very expensive to buy. Now everyone's got one.

[wadoichimonji]

Were they always this complicated?

[volksdaemon]

If you mean trying to write out words on them, yes it's always been this complicated - because you're dealing with a keyboard one way or the other.

Everything else is new, though. Used to be you only made phone calls, then you only sent people pages to their beepers, and that was only numbers not characters. Then it was text only after that. Now it's all this craziness.

[wadoichimonji]

So no matter what, phones are a pain.

What's a beeper though?

[volksdaemon]

Pretty much.

It's barely useful is what it is. Imagine a little piece of tech that buzzes when someone pushes a button. That's all it is. The only benefit was that it didn't have to be plugged into the wall.

[wadoichimonji]

Huh. Why do we use these things so much though?

What was that created for?!

[volksdaemon]

Why? What do you mean why? Because humans can't read each other's minds, obviously.

Doctors, I think. So that they could get woken up in the middle of the night, or called to a specific room at the hospital, for an emergency.

[wadoichimonji]

We can just... Talk.

Huh that's interesting. It'd be annoying to have one of those things.

[volksdaemon]

Yeah but sometimes it's too loud to be heard or you're trying to be quiet. Or the connection's bad.

Oh yeah I'd never want something like that strapped to my belt, at someone else's beck & call.

[wadoichimonji]

Connections can be bad?

It'd be hell, and I'd probably break it.